Washington (CNN)– Less than two weeks after one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, the No.2 Democrat in the U.S. House, Steny Hoyer, compared Republican tactics for dealing with the nation’s debt limit to someone threatening to shoot a child hostage.

“It’s somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, ‘I’m going to shoot my child if you don’t do what I want done.’ You don’t want to shoot your child. There’s no Republican leader that wants to default on our debt, that I’ve talked to,” Hoyer said at a Capitol Hill press conference.

Hoyer’s comments came in response to a question about the Treasury Department’s notice that the nation was approaching its debt limit. He criticized Republicans for previous resistance to raising the debt ceiling and used the gun analogy to argue that the issue should not be part of the negotiations involving the fiscal cliff.

And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid likened House Speaker John Boehner to a dictator yesterday because of his refusal to simply cave to the President’s demands on the fiscal cliff issue.

Do both Reid and Hoyer not realize how insanely hypocritical they both are, considering that in the Senate under Reid’s “leadership” there hasn’t been a budget passed in some 1300 days?? Will ANYONE in the mainstream media call them out on this two-faced bull-sh*t, not to mention demand retractions for their idiotically stupid remarks on dictatorships and holding children hostage?

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It disgusts me that the people of my beloved Maryland haven’t voted all of our morons out yet. Sadly, I cannot vote with my feet at this time, but as soon as I can, I’m moving my tax dollars to Virginia.

If the metaphor is so offensive, perhaps it would be wise for Republicans to stop using it to describe their negotiating style:

“Under one variation of this Doomsday Plan, House Republicans would allow a vote on extending only the middle class tax cuts and Republicans, to express disapproval at the failure to extend all tax cuts, would vote “present” on the bill, allowing it to pass entirely on Democratic votes.

By doing this, Republicans avoid taking blame for tax increases on 98 percent of income tax payers. As one senior Republican in Congress told me, “You don’t take a hostage you aren’t willing to shoot.” Republicans aren’t willing to kill the middle class tax cuts, even if extending them alone will make it harder to later extend tax cuts on the wealthy.”
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Oh those Democrats! Always missing their medication dosages and relapsing into insanity before their news conferences and public meetings! I would recommend a longer acting medication be prescribed by their psychiatrists which should give them much better coverage when they skip their doses.

Remember when Romney was labelled a wife murderer for being in the venture capital business? If we as a people and our so-called leaders cannot communicate with one another without stooping to the basest, gutter-level sorts of affronts, things will get much worse before they get any better at all. It is a safe bet the rest of the world, especially our enemites, are enjoying a good old-fashioned belly laugh at our expense.